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Three greats who we’ve lost

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Published: April 19, 2026 06:30

Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare (1934-2026) won the 1980 Turing Award for numerous contributions to computer science, including foundational work on concurrency and formal verification and the invention (with Dijkstra) of the dining philosophers problem.…

Before we start on quantum

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Published: April 7, 2026 07:51

Imagine that every week for twenty years, people message you asking you to comment on the latest wolf sighting, and every week you have to tell them: I haven’t seen a wolf, I haven’t heard a wolf, I believe wolves exist but I don’t yet see evidence of them…

Quantum computing bombshells that are not April Fools

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Published: April 1, 2026 21:26

For those of you who haven’t seen, there were actually two “bombshell” QC announcements this week. One, from Caltech, including friend-of-the-blog John Preskill, showed how to do quantum fault-tolerance with lower overhead than was previously known, by…

Movie Review: "The AI Doc”

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Published: March 29, 2026 21:56

Yesterday Dana, the kids, and I went to the theater to watch The AI Doc: Or How I Became An Apocaloptimist, the well-reviewed new documentary about whether AGI will destroy the world. This was surely the weirdest family movie night we’ve ever done.…

My theoretical computer science notes from Epsilon Camp

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Published: March 29, 2026 05:17

Last summer, I was privileged to teach a two-week course on theoretical computer science to exceptional 11- and 12-year-olds at Epsilon Camp, held at Washington University in St. Louis. I was at Epsilon Camp to accompany my son Daniel, who attended a…

Congrats to Bennett and Brassard on the Turing Award!

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Published: March 18, 2026 16:10

I’m on a spring break vacation-plus-lecture-tour with Dana and the kids in Mexico City this week, and wasn’t planning to blog, but I see that I need to make an exception. Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard have won the Turing Award, for their seminal…

On Montgomery County public magnet schools: a guest post by Daniel Gottesman

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Published: March 15, 2026 01:42

Scott’s foreword: I’ve known fellow quantum computing theorist Daniel Gottesman, now at the University of Maryland, for a quarter-century at this point. Daniel has been a friend, colleague, coauthor, and one of the people from whom I’ve learned the most in…

Remarks at UT on the Pentagon/Anthropic situation

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Published: March 10, 2026 20:47

Last Thursday, my friend and colleague Sam Baker, in UT Austin’s English department, convened an “emergency panel” here about the developing Pentagon/Anthropic situation, and asked me to speak at it. Even though the situation has continued to develop since…

The ”JVG algorithm” is crap

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Published: March 8, 2026 03:06

Sorry to interrupt your regular programming about the AI apocalypse, etc., and return to the traditional beat of this blog’s very earliest years … but I’ve now gotten multiple messages asking me to comment on something called the “JVG…